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Greenway Lane, BATH, BA2 4LW

Looking towards a grassy hill with allotments on it.

The path emerges from Devonshire Tunnel.

BR Standard 4 80043 (built 7/52 Brighton, withdrawn 3/66) heads the 3.20pm from Bath Green Park to Templecombe out of Devonshire Tunnel into Lyncombe Vale. In about ¼ mile, climbing at 1 in 50, it will reach the summit of the climb out of Bath & drop down through Coombe Down Tunnel to Midford. This train was notable - the very last daytime service train to leave Green Park; needless to say it was packed & I was one of a large crowd of photographers.

A footpath heading out from Bath.

These houses were built in the first few years of the 19th Century.

An information board alongside the Two Tunnels Greenway. The Greenway is the former trackbed of the Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway which ran from Bath to Bournemouth. The heavily engineered railway closed in 1966. Part of the trackbed became a linear park whilst further south it was used as an informal footpath. A campaign to re-open the route as a shared-use path started in 2005 and the Two Tunnels Greenway opened in April, 2013.

Seen from the track.

Part of the Two Tunnels Greenway. This was once the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway, closed in 1966 and re-opened as a linear park and path in 2013.

Devonshire Tunnel is on the closed Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway main line, between Midford and Bath Green Park railway stations, below high ground and the southern suburbs of Bath emerging below the northern slopes of Combe Down village. It opened in 1874 and was named after the road called Devonshire Buildings which lie immediately above the tunnel. It now forms one of the eponymous tunnels in the Two Tunnels Greenway.

The eastern portal of Devonshire Tunnel, which formerly took the Somerset & Dorset Railway beneath the southern edge of Bath. After many years blocked up - the Western portal was completely buried when the approach cutting was filled in in 1973 - the tunnel has recently been reopened as part of the Two Tunnels Greenway, a footpath and cycleway to Midford along the route of the old S&D. It's interesting to note that the telegraph pole on the right has survived all the changes ... I have a picture in Mac Hawkins' excellent "Somerset & Dorset: Then and Now" book which shows this very telegraph pole in 1958, when the railway was still open.